On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, 09:44 joseph pareti, <joeparet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> the following code ends in an exception: > > import re > pattern = 'Sottoscrizione unica soluzione' > mylines = [] # Declare an empty list. with open ('tmp.txt', 'rt') as myfile: # Open tmp.txt for reading text. > for myline in myfile: # For each line in the file, > mylines.append(myline.rstrip('\n')) # strip newline and add to > list. > for element in mylines: # For each element in the list, > # print(element) > match = re.search(pattern, element) > s = match.start() > e = match.end() > print(element[s:e]) > > > > F:\October20-2019-RECOVERY\Unicredit_recovery\tmp_re_search>c:\Users\joepareti\Miniconda3\pkgs\python-3.7.1-h8c8aaf0_6\python.exe > search_0.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "search_0.py", line 10, in <module> > s = match.start() > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'start' > > any help? Thanks > Check over the docs for re.match again, you'll see it returns either a Match object (which is always truthy), or None. So a simple solution is to wrap your attempts to use the Match object in ``` if match: ... ``` > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list